[Judiciary.] States, or are held for trial before fome court of the fame, or are neceffary to be brought into court to teftify i. 5y Injunction. Writs of ne exeat and injunction, may be iffued by a judge of the fupreme court, in cafes where the fupreme or circuit court may grant them. But no writ of ne exeat fhall be granted unlefs a fuit in equity be commenced, and proof adduced, that the defendant defigns quickly to depart from the United States. And no injunction to stay proceedings without reasonable notice ii. 228 Judgment. In fuits against revenue officers and other holders of public money, the court shall grant judgment at the retum term, unless the defendant, in open court, fhall make oath that he is entitled to credits which have been refused at the treasury: in which cafe the court may grant a continuance. iii. 422 Jurors. Jurors to ferve in the courts of the United States shall be defignated in each state according to their mode: shall poffefs the fame qualifications, and shall be returned from fuch parts of the diftrict, as fhall be leaft burdenfome to the citizens i. 67 Clerks fhall iffue writs of venire facias to the marshal or his deputy: or if interefted, to fome fit perfon, and when from challenges or otherwife there fhall not be a competent number, they may be returned de talibus circumftantibus i. 68 16 Trials for crimes fhall be by jury All iffues in fact fhall be tried by jury, except in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction Mandamus. 54 The fupreme court may iffue writs of mandamus in cafes warranted by the ufages of law to any court appointed or any officer under the authority of the United States Procefs. i 58 All proceffes iffuing from the fupreme or circuit courts, fhall bear test of the chief-juftice, and from the diftric [Judiciary.] court, of the judge, fhall be under the feal of the court, ii. 102 and figned by the clerk Prohibition. The fupreme court may iffue writs of prohibition to diftrict courts when proceeding as courts of admiralty, and maritime jurifdiction Trial. i. 58 i. 16 The trial of all crimes, excepting in cafes of impeachment, fhall be by jury In capital cafes, trial fhall be had in the county where the offence was committed, or where that cannot be done without great inconvenience, twelve petit jurors at least fhall be fummoned from thence 67 No perfon in any civil action before the circuit or district court, fhall be arrested in one district for trial in another 55 55 No fuit fhall be brought against an inhabitant of the United States by original procefs, but in the diftrict where he belongs or shall be found Courts may grant new trials in cafes where there has been a trial by jury, for reasons for which new trials have been usually granted Witnesses. бо Subpenas for witneffes required to attend a court of the U. States, in any district thereof, may run into another diftrict. Provided that in civil cafes, the witness living out of the district, does not live at a greater diftance than ii. 228 one hundred miles from the court Witneffes may be compelled to appear and give their depofitions in the fame manner as they can be compelled to appear in court and testify Fees of witneffes Writs. i. 70 ii. 104. iii. 363. All writs and proceffes iffuing from the fupreme or a circuit court, fhall bear teft of the chief justice, and from a diftrict court, of the judge thereof; fhall be under the feal of the court and figned by the clerk thereof ii. 102 The forms of writs, executions, and other procefs, (except their stile) and the forms and modes of proceeding in fuit of common law, fhall be fuch as the courts have adopted, and are now used in pursuance of an act, to regulate proceffes in the courts of the United States, which directed, that the forms of writs and executions, except their stile and modes of procefs in fuits of common law, fhould be the fame in each state, as were used and allowed in the fupreme courts of the fame ii. 103 The forms of writs, &c. and the modes of proceeding in fuits in equity and admiralty, and maritime jurifdic tion, shall be according to the principles, rules and ufages of courts of equity and admiralty, as contradiftinguished from courts of common law Courts may iffue all writs neceflary for the exercife of their jurifdiction Jurifdiction of courts, (fee Judiciary,) Jurors, how returned --their fees ii. 103 i. 58 i. 67 ii. 105. iii. 363 16 i. 54 555 278 282 iii. 33 i. 92 Kafkafkia, lands at, granted to certain perfons. -number of Reprefentatives Kimberly, Ephraim, land warrant issued to, L Lands, ceffion of, by North-Carolina -at Weft-Point, purchafe of, for the United States authorized 131 -western, pledged for the redemption of the public debt -fale authorized -appropriated for military warrants -granted to fettlers at Vincennes and Illinois -to be conveyed to Pennsylvania -granted to the Ohio company -granted to inhabitants of Galliopolis Larceny, how punished Law, expoft facto, not to be paffed Laws of Congress to be fupreme 161 iii. 293 358 i. 353 254 ii. 13 63 iii. 228 i. 107 i. II 18 of the ftates, in what cafes to be the rule of deci fion 74 Laws of the United States, an edition to be pubiished by the Secretary of State -how to be diftributed iii. 230 231 -mode in which the laws of each feffion of Congress fhall be printed and diftributed 231 -of feflion of Congrefs in 1797, to be published in the above mentioned edition 1377 -mode of diftributing five hundred fets of above edition 437 Leakage, allowance for, i. 215 Learning, act for encouraging, 118 Letters, duty on, iii. 46 53 ii. 200 -free -patent LEGISLATURE OF THE UNITED STATES. Legislative power vefted in Congress, confifting of a Senate and Houfe of Representatives i. 5 Elections to be regulated by the ftates, but Congrefs may alter the fame, excepting the place of choofing Se nators 7 Congrefs fhall meet every year, and on the first Monday in December, unless they by law appoint a different day 7 Each Houfe to judge of the elections of their own members, and a majority to constitute a quorum to do bufinefs, but a lefs number may adjourn, from day to day, and compel the attendance of abfent members May establish their own rules, punish their members for diforderly conduct, and with the concurrence of twothirds, expel a member 7 8 Shall keep journals to be published, unlefs when they require fecrecy 8 Yeas and nays may be taken, when demanded by one-fifth of the members 8 Their wages to be afcertained by law-privileged from arrefts, except in cafes of treafon, felony, and breach of 8 the peace Ineligible to offices in certain cafes, and can hold no office under the United States 8 ૪ 8 All revenue bills muft originate in the Houfe of Reprefertatives, but the Senate may propofe amendments Power of the Prefident in refpect of bills Limitation of the powers of the ftates in certain cafes i. 11, 12 [Legislature.] Senators and Representatives to take an oath to fupport i. 25 the conftitution Congrefs to be in feffion every fecond Wednesday in Febru ary every fourth year fucceeding 1793, to receive and count the votes for Prefident and Vice-Prefident ii. 24 Apportionment of Reprefentatives, according to the first 55 enumeration Compenfation to members of Congress iii. 244 Prefident may alter the place of the meeting of Congrefs, in cafe of contagious fickness Licenfe to trade with the Indians -to veffels Licenfes to retail, duty on, Limitation of the powers of Congress of the powers of the states of criminal profecutions. of claims against the United States 30 iii. 306 ii. 171 iii. 77 i. 11 12 114 ii. 163 Light-houses, beacons and buoys established, and support of, provided for-to continue one year only, unless jurifdiétion fhall be ceded to the United States -houfe to be built in Chesapeak bay 33 34 -Secretary of the Treafury to provide for repairing -to be built at Bauld head to be built on Montok point 34 257 ii. 36 48 47 -houses, beacons, buoys and public piers provided for, and beacons and buoys to be placed in the harbor of Charleston and Chesapeak bay -houses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and ftakeage of channels provided for, and beacons and buoys to be placed in Chesapeak bay and Ocracoke inlet 238 -buoys to be placed off the harbour of New-London, and in Providence river iii. 31 -houfe to be built at Cape Hatteras, and a lighted bea con placed on Shell-Castle ifland -houfe to be built at Seguin and beacon and buoys to be placed at the entrance of St. Mary's river 66 -houfe to be built at George-town in South-Carolina, and buoys to be placed in Cape-Fear river 63 174 |